AICE Media Studies 2024-25

Peer Review #1  " The cinematography was solid—nice framing and smooth camera work that made the scene look professional. The lighting set the right mood, and the background music added to the atmosphere. One thing that could be better is the dialogue delivery; some parts felt a little stiff or rushed. This definitely felt like a movie opener, and it got me interested in what’s coming next. To make it even better, the dialogue could flow more naturally, and a little more intensity in key moments would help build the suspense." This review is basically saying that our technical elements were solid, however we should've worked on dialogue and better delivery. I would say that the dialogue itself is fine, but acting isn't much of a factor within the technical elements that are focused on such as lighting. So I disagree with the critics but appreciate the compliments on the technical aspects. Peer Review #2 "The tilt-to-angle shot of the female protagonist was a stan...

“The Entity After Hours” https://youtu.be/uISgY-24Fkw My favorite thing about this opening sequence is the lighting while they sneak into the classroom. The red from the emergency exit sign created a suspenseful feeling. The Dutch angles made it feel like someone or something was watching them. The dark lighting was great as well, making the red signs pop out more and create a sort of dangerous atmosphere. This was also during the time they started talking about there being a ghost in the school, setting up the premise of the film. I wasn’t the biggest fan on the master shot towards the end though. I will say that the zoom-in they used made it a bit better and the ending itself was very good at making me wonder “well what happened?!” The diegetic sounds at the end really added to the overall sense of looming danger that was already present. I felt like the opening was understandable and wasn’t really confusing. I understood that the overall premise was kids sneaking into their school a...

 

Since the last time we talked about Alexander's issues while editing, there has been much more progress done by him and this time, Angela. As mentioned in the last post we were all supposed to meet up and assist in the editing. However, I got really sick and our other group member couldn't make it either. This left Angela and Alexander alone to work together in editing our opening sequence. They worked for about 2-3 hours.  Angela and Alexander working together After considering multiple different fonts and trying to find the right one for the job. The font they settled on using in the movie is "Monserrat-Light" as it is thin and simplistic. This adds neatness to the film and correlates well with the therapy clinic setting. For colors, we're considering utilizing yellow, red, or dark blue because they're striking and make the scenes pop out more.  In terms of audio, we're going to edit in many sounds such as clicking, scratching, high-pitched noise, and su...

Filmmaking has been a BLAST! Truly it has but the whole filming process also requires editing, the final piece of the filming puzzle. Now we haven't made much progress just yet on editing this week. I say we but truly I just mean Alexander, one of the group members. We plan to meet and discuss our vision to try to develop our "Mona Lisa" of the Media Studies class. Picture of Alexander working on editing Alexander did attempt to make some progress on the editing, but he faced some issues while doing so. For example, we did not name any of the video files which made it very difficult to put the clips in order. So, he had to go through each clip individually, while reviewing the script, to properly put the clips in place. He also renamed the clips so that he wouldn't lose track of them again. Picture of Alexander's screen while editing Lastly, his computer was having a bit of trouble editing. Specifically, the software he was trying to use was running very slow and ...

 Last week, we finally began filming. When I say last week it sounds like such a long time ago, but it was really only 4 days ago or so. It was tough at first, especially because we were trying to get our schedules to finally align with each others'. When we finally did and met up at the filming location, one of our member's house, we went straight to work. The first objective was to prepare an area within the house represent a therapy session. Doing this was relatively easy, the only issue was lighting. We wanted to use natural lighting that could peak through the blinds of the house, but it was too dim to use for the scene. We settled on utilizing a mixture of natural lighting along with overhead lighting. Picture of the group rehearsing before the first take. After the set up, we began to work on our first take of the opening sequence. The room had a bit of an echo and any little noise could be caught in the audio. This made things a bit difficult a there were two dogs that ...

Filming has been a CHALLENGE; fun but definitely more complicated than what we believed it would be. First of all, we originally planned to meet on Thursday, February 6th, but I had a sudden family issue that caused me to reschedule for the next day. When we finally met up, we were able to finally set up the area we were working in and make it how we wanted to look like. However, we were filming in a group member's house who owns 2 dogs. The dogs were rowdy and hard to get to calm down. This was especially an issue because the room was producing slight echoes in the audio, so the sounds of the dogs collars and paws tapping on the floor created difficulties in our recordings! It was very tedious but despite that we were able to get clips without the dogs making loud or noticeable noises.   Also, we were planning to use natural lighting from the sun within the film more to make it feel a bit more authentic. We were not able to effectively do this though, as filming took so long ...